EAW051172 ENGLAND (1953). The High Street and city centre, Exeter, 1953

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Title [EAW051172] The High Street and city centre, Exeter, 1953
Reference EAW051172
Date 6-August-1953
Link
Place name EXETER
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 292269, 92760
Longitude / Latitude -3.5264358342212, 50.723890507361
National Grid Reference SX923928

Pins

32 Chute Street, my birthplace June 1941, which apart from a few rattled window panes and soot from the chimney suffered no damage in the war.

Chas Drown
Wednesday 22nd of January 2020 03:18:53 PM
Express & Echo building (Not the other pin further up)

Scooby
Friday 17th of January 2020 04:23:21 PM
St Marks church

joepettetsmith
Thursday 20th of October 2016 07:02:09 PM
The City Swimming Baths, now Pyramids Leisure Centre

markypiper
Saturday 21st of November 2015 08:58:42 PM
Motor Macs Garage.

Allen T
Thursday 27th of November 2014 03:32:09 PM
Site of Hughes Garage

Allen T
Thursday 27th of November 2014 03:30:43 PM
I remember seeing a dead whale on display in an articulated lorry trailer here in the mid fifties.

Allen T
Thursday 27th of November 2014 03:29:08 PM
This became the Express & Echo (Northcliffe) building site, Exeter's evening paper, now printed just once a week in Plymouth.

Allen T
Thursday 27th of November 2014 03:27:49 PM
I believe that this was a Regent Battery sign.

Allen T
Thursday 27th of November 2014 03:25:53 PM
The site of Exeter's tallest building completed some six years later. Originally Bobby's, then Debenhams and now John Lewis.

Allen T
Thursday 27th of November 2014 03:25:05 PM
Buildings side on to Martin's Lane in the course of construction. Recently occupied by Barratt's shoe shop.

Allen T
Thursday 27th of November 2014 03:23:20 PM

Allen T
Thursday 27th of November 2014 12:27:02 PM
Eveleigh's garage.

Allen T
Thursday 27th of November 2014 12:25:44 PM
Colson's now Dingles (House of Fraser) has been rebuilt.

Allen T
Thursday 27th of November 2014 12:20:11 PM
Great to see the modern embryo city taking shape.

Allen T
Thursday 27th of November 2014 12:19:05 PM
Roman city wall.

Allen T
Thursday 27th of November 2014 12:18:18 PM
The Clifton Inn which survived the blitz whilst everything twenty feet opposite was destroyed (a road of terrace houses)which just shows how indiscriminate and luck of the draw bombing is.

Allen T
Thursday 27th of November 2014 12:17:10 PM
Summerland Street where my mother's house was destroyed by bombing and her brother killed. Now a car park.

Allen T
Thursday 27th of November 2014 11:40:28 AM
I remember this bomb site and the hoardings into the late fifties.

Allen T
Thursday 27th of November 2014 11:27:51 AM

Allen T
Thursday 27th of November 2014 11:25:48 AM
Marks and Spencer new 1950's store.

Allen T
Thursday 27th of November 2014 11:25:05 AM
It's interesting to see that these bombed out houses in Dix's Field still haven't been demolished. Could they have been saved?

Allen T
Thursday 27th of November 2014 11:03:10 AM
The outline of the old Bedford Circus can be clearly seen.

Allen T
Thursday 27th of November 2014 11:01:12 AM
The new rebuilt city centre as we know it nowadays is beginning to take shape some eleven years after destruction.

Allen T
Thursday 27th of November 2014 11:00:28 AM